Batman Begins

Batman Begins

1-25-10

It's rather remarkable that this film is as good as it is. Its a movie about a guy who decides to fight crime dressed up as a bat. I've always adhered to the notion that certain kinds of stories are better told in the medium of cartoons or comic books. Superhero stories  for the most part don't work well in live action. You can look at a guy dressed as a bat as illustrated in a comic book and its cool. If you take a real life guy and dress him up in bat costume....that thing that was once cool is now silly. Well this is not the case with Batman Begins....its not silly, its actually dramatically compelling well crafted cinema....imagine that. Batman Begins works because it makes the mythos of the character believable and real to the audience. Its still a fantasy of course but its a bit more tangible.